Ok, this is not a Slackerscript, this is more like a Oddscript (it exist just becuase it could be done) that my cranky pal Phydeaux3 has done just because he could (duh!) and to have something to shut up some people (don´t ask)

The concept is very simple, in blogger you have a limit range in wich you can date your posts, this script breaks the limits giving you the freedom to post from the distant future or from the distant past.

See?,i said it was odd.

However, i myself are responsable to have advised many times to mess with the dating system in blogger to make certain things possible, that is why i am buzzing this, i put the money where my mouth is.

Bumpbox has just released a upgrade to their system, meaning you can now get a Bumpbox Button, without logins and that they have adjudted their code page so you can get the code with the Blogger $TAGS$ to fire away and use so.

xFruits is other of those Web 2.0 Start ups that works not servin one service but various service at the same time in the way of a online ToolBox, in this case serving serveral services to work with Feeds.

Lets take a quick look to them:

1.-RSS Aggregator

This serves as a Feedigest kind of thing that will allow you to make a mix of upto to3 Feed in one go.

The Further Review of this will go in a new post.

2.-RSS To Web

A RSS Landing page, only useful to those that are not in Feedbuner already (so, not many), but if you wanna have a look at one, take a look at

The front of the service is that, the people that use the service, you search the people to take a look at how they are using the tools, and this usage can either be Public or Private. so it is worth of a visit and a try.

Well. it shows that it´s time for site upgrades, and the update of today is Technorati renovating not only its Look, GUI and some minor new features but also adjusting its accuracy wich was way way needed for the past months.

I like the new look, and i hope they are rolling even more new fetures soon.

So take a look and if you don´t haven´t claimed your blog, what are you waiting for?

Well, the bet is even higher now, sure Feedblitz has improved a little but it is really nothing compared at the improvement of Yutter considering, it was already the best service of its kind.

So, yes Yutter is a service that will take your feed and then cast it into a e-mail syndicated service so people can subscribe to your blog and that the post come to their mails.

Since it started Yutter has gone from 0 to over 2000 users, something i find actually depressing considering how good it is.

And here is what they can offer to you that no one else can:

1.-Branding.

You can put your logo of your blog and online publication as the header of the e-mail and the subscription form your visitors are going to use.

2.-Custom E-mail Schedule

This is a brilliant feature that will help you to control how you drive your post to the one who read you, this option lets yu program and what time of the day or how often you are going to send e-mails with your posts.

I have set it at once daily, becuase that way the subscriber only recives one E-mail ,no matter if you did 1 or 10 posts that day.

And becuase, it gives you a window of time in case something happens and you edit the post or change part of it. Yutter will take the post from the feed at the time you have scheduled it to do so, meaning that the edit/change will reach your readers without re-sending the post..

3.-Complete Reader Control

The controls in yutter to let you manage subscribers are top notch, you can validate the address of a subcriber so they can recive your posts right away, you can export the list in a txt. file, you can erase/pause/activate reader whenever you want.

4.-Ease Of Use.

Yutter has the easiest and better looking interfase of the Feed To Mail crowd, you can set up a account and have it running in 5 minutes or less.

5.-Features.

Yutter has the best set of features for a free service, they have features other charge for and one of the best way of managing stats in a service like this:

I have 3 very simple rules to promote something, anything. be it a diary product, a web app, and hell, even people or ideas.

1.-I Must Really Like It2.-It Must Be Actually Good3.-Do/Did I Use/Consume/Dig It?

Ok, so, right now, if you like something, most of the time you pass it along to others, sure, but i think that it is not enough just to like something, one must question if it is actually good besides your own opinion of it, if it is worthwhile to others spend the time, or have the experience of what you are recommending.

Another thing is that opinions can change all the time, time pass, etc.

So, i am used to think forward before actually recommending something.

That is the key difference in the apreciation of things.

Going from the one that review something based on personal taste, overall validation and deep questioning of it.

Well, i was just thinking about this since i have been doing Buzz posts lately.

And just to make clear that if i am recommending something is becuase i have passed those 3 rules on the matter.

The recent Indian Blogger Blockage has finally been lifted according to the India Today

Something i find refreshing to know, is that according to some reports, the blockage was a mistake, a error, since they were actually wanting only to Block some Blogger blogs in a black list, that unfortunately now has been leaked to the internet, making those in the Black list to have more audience than ever before.

Oh, the sweet sweet irony!

So, welcome back India and welcome back also to Aditya that was affected by this:

The Archive Browser, is a strange idea but it´s directed to low-broadband and dial-up user, since the hacks goes and gives you a reading page for that year worth of post on stripped down version, so it can be as lightweight as possible to load.

However, if you had never heard of it yet, well, let me tell you what it is about:

Cocomment, tracks the Blogosphere and beyond for what you say in it. allowing you to have your own track line on it, meaning you will always know what you said and were you said it but, also letting you to know if someone else said or replied directly to what you said.

Confusing?.

Not at all, Cocomment is for Comments, what Blogger is for Push Button Publisihng, The easiest and the best way to be integrated into your thoughts, ideas and opinions at any given time giving you the choice to share them abroad.

There are others options out there like co.mments and commentor but they still not come close to Cocomment, so if you have never tried it, maybe is time you would now that it has been upgraded to stay ahead of the pack.

A voting system with the same principles as Bumpbox that worked on Blogger were something i was recently thinking in, and well, the first one of it´s kind that works Blogger seems to be this, more important is that it not only offers the option for the kind of vote button you want like shown here:

but that it offers the css file for the Vote Button to whoever want to grab it and hosting it elsewhere to have your own look specifications.

This service offers a specific version for wordpress and a custom version to modifcate that is the one that works with Blogger of course.

So, i took the time to make you and aready adjusted custom version that works with Blogger, that really only needs the Blogger $tags$ to work:

Go to Settings - Template and then look for the place where you want it to appear, (in this case it would be recomended for it be at the post footer)

Paste the code there and that´s it.

USE

In this case the only Bad/Good thing is that to vote the user has to have a account in Bumpbox.

GOOD

This is Good because that way people cannnot abuse that easy of the system and having an account in bumpbox will also give them a My Bumps list holding everything that they gave their good mark for, like in Digg and other Systems like it being able to track those items.

BAD

This is Bad because that way if they are not signed in they will have to sign in there.

OBSERVATIONS:

An added perk for using Bumpbox is that everytime someone Bump a post whenever that be, it appears in the general Bumpbox Board giving you some posible extra traffic.

So the only shortcoming i see for the system is that the service work in the behalf of the user only, and it works in a public way for the Blog Bumpbox user.

Wich means that the Bumpbox user that has a blog cannot opt for a RSS feed, for remote checking and to have the option to play with it, for example, to have a lastes bumped items.

This also means that for the moment you cannot think right now of having a widget for doing the same from the Bumpbox Service.

But this observations are really just nitpicking about it because this is easy to fix, if they get a claim this blog into the system that will get you added features and tools.

There are two Blogs that have without question the best Native Search display there is, Aditya and me of course.

Well,Aditya has upgraded his Native Search leaving even mine to shame with a additional feature you will not find in that google ajax search google is letting everyone play with.

And that is Suggestions, wich means that when you start typing in the form it will show the most popular results in the page, and not only that, everytime you choose one of the items that are suggested, that word will get higher in the list of the popular choices, samewise if you type another word and that word gets searched more often it will replace a word in the list with that new hot keyword.

it is not that cool or what?

It sure is, and another reason why there is always a way to keep a step ahead of google.

Now, why am talking about this if it seems Aditya is not going to release it?, well, Aditya is a softie, and he sure loves comments, so if you go to his post and tell him to release it, he will comply, so go and suggest it to him...

Aditya points out the question about how Blogger upgrades will affect The hacks, mods and methods from today and the ones that still don´t get to be.

Becuase a lot of creativity is put at work when thinking about categories that is still the number one feature that blogger lacks and cannot provide at this time becuase not having enough server power at the disposal of the blogger platform so it can get upgraded as it should. the Blogger System it is now in constant upgrading and tweaking, some features come and go without no one noticing them, and other are still waiting their moment.

One of the next Blogger features that has been hold forever is the dreaded Send SMS for the blogger navbar, and also a button that has been put off and taken off of the blogger navbar is one that said simply "go" and i really didn´t had a clue what that was about.

Other features include a hinted design tweak of the internal Blogger look that we know,

One that is now in beta testing is the Rss feed for Blogger and i see it has got better but it is still not usable as the main feed just as it is.

But in the end there is always stuff to make up, stuff to do, i know because i have only seen 20 of almost a 100 concept i have in my head come to reality, so, yeah there is always stuff to make.

I can only imagine the better for the platform this year, and i am surely expect it to continue to be as flexible as it is, becuase if at some moment Blogger becomes strict, then the spirit of what Bloggerhas been from the start would just dry.

Blogger has updated the code running in the Admin Dashboard and now everyone can enjoy a more stable and fast admin Dashboard along a Comment Control for each post where you can erase,edit and manage every comment in the blog.

And here are the self explanatory pictures of it:

1.-Dashboard:

2.- Comment Window:

*Updated:

But it seems that i can only see it from the computer at work, maybe because of some changes i made to my Blogger account (don`t ask) recently.

Here is the description of it:

There is a new comments link that is just at the right of the delete link in the edit post section of the posting tab, when clicked,it will give you the comment window (opens in the same tab/window) for that post and there will be a "X" red pointer and a Pencil as the edit icon at the side of it in each of the comments of that post.

And that is it. now, who wants to know about the other 4 confirmed changes to blogger i know about? =D

*Updated 08/07/06: Now with photos

(yeah, i knew that last line would put this blog and my mail going on, hehehe)

*Updated 11/07/06: Note

The comment control is no more, i don´t see it anymore.. and i really was left weird out of it because after looking at jasper userscript, and i noticed there were exactly the same and began having doubts, i mean i had not intalled or seen it before but how about it somehow the broswer catched it recenly while iwere using others userscripts? i am using flock at the moment.

Well, i recived some mail asking where the hell i was. the thing is that my health was not OK the last 10 days so i were a little M.I.A on the Blogging scene because of it, it is sad becuase i have lots of stuff that i am holding because i have them in my notes.

It is also sad becuase it takes me out of my self marked schedule for the blog i wanted to keep when i started it.

But since i have to work in the day, it can get hard to do.

However i have done a lot of thinking and i have been distracting myself translating the rest of the post that i need so the spanish version of this blog can be in synch with this blog at all times

I have recived some e-mails about where & when the Bloggeratto side-proyect i talked about a month ago is, and the answer is: I will release it a soon as i can and it will be worthy the wait i hope. and i already have planned the next 2 proyects after that one.